Text(s)-Images-Text

Barthes tell us that: "According to an ancient etymology, the word image should be linked to the root imitari. Thus we find ourselves immediately at the heart of the most important problem facing the semiology of images: can analogical representation (the "copy") produce true systems of signs and not merely simple agglutinations of symbols? [...] Nor are linguists the only ones to be suspicious as to the linguistic nature of the image; general opinion too has a vague conception of the image as an area of resistance to meaning-this in the name of a certain mythical idea of Life: the image is representation, which is to say ultimately resurrection, and, as we know, the intelligible is reputed antipathetic to lived experience."

Could we wonder ourselves, when entering a space of representations (or an artistically intervened space), if it is the person’s own body the object of study for its own mind through its perception, or if it is being the mind a subjectivity surveying a body producing text-images on itself. Merleau-Ponty's statement brings a possibility to enter not the questioning itself precisely, but a way to consider the mediation of such questioning further by stating, “Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.”

A geometrical composition using text. Text as image, image as text. To our mind, a word becomes more than a word once it is evoked, it produces an image, a meaning. It is through speech that we share the world and learn its knowledges while we become thsoe knowledges, those consciences. According to Ranciere: “The human animal learns everything in the same way as it initially learnt its mother tongue, as it learnt to venture into the forest of things and signs surrounding it, so as to take its place among human beings: by observing and comparing one thing with another, a sign with a fact, a sign with another sign”. In the “Concept-Context"; iterations & variations on-going series, the geometricity in the word-game design becomes a consequence of content, an encounter with form; the word-game becomes an infinite loop of possibilities, it is a statement as much as it is an invitation to continue playing with it.

  • Wall with text art that reads: "IMAGINE YOURSELF STANDING NAKED IN A FULL-SIZE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH"

    Various Text-image Installations

    2014 - on going. A series of Installations departing from TEXT-IMAGES-TEXT,
    An Attempt to Produce Dialectical Articulations Between Space, Image, Text and Spectator.

  • A person is sitting on a wooden box, writing on a white wall with red marker. The wall has colorful words related to position like 'POP-Posición', 'POST-Posición', 'PRO-Posición', and various other words in Spanish and English.

    Propuestas Improbables, Sótano 1

    In 2014 curators Gabriel Rodriguez and Diego Sagastume invited me to produce work for their legendary space S1, situated in the heart of Guatemala's downtown historical district.

  • A hand holding several blue bumper stickers with white text.

    Automatismos Inesperados, Universidad Rafael Landívar

    Using conceptual detonators as prompts, one of my areas of interest in research and artistic production is based on embarking into the unknown as an epistemological exploration.

  • A row of six black and beige folded booklets with large, bold letters, spelling out 'MOTIVES' when arranged in order, and a blue pencil with an eraser tip lying on a white surface.

    Textperimento(s)

    2015, "Textperimento(s)", a collaborative project between artists Camila Fernandez and Renato Osoy.

  • Three people standing in front of a wall covered in red and blue handwritten text and drawings, in an art gallery. The wall features a portrait of a woman with text surrounding it and a large archway at the center.

    Variations.Uniformity at Bradwolff Projects

    2014, “Deleuze & Borges Labyrinthic Encounter”, Part of the group exhibition "Variations.Uniformity" at Bradwolff Projects Amsterdam.

  • Open flashcard with the letter 'f' and an illustration of a leaf on the right side.

    Word & Image & What is In-between

    2011. A collaboration with artists: Miriam Lombaert and Mieke Wessecker.